The Complicated History of Government Influence Over Universities
Mihaela Chircă
O n March 27, President Donald Trump issued an executive order titled, “Restoring Truth and Sanity to American History,” which aims to root out the “corrosive ideology” that casts American history in a “negative” light. Critics have denounced this as an attempt to control ideas—part of a broader trend of unprecedented attacks against academic freedom and the independence of institutions of learning. But the truth is that the push to align scholarship with government interests is not new.
astăzi